What is Fuga Cloud?

Fuga Cloud is a high-performance public cloud service, hosted in the Netherlands and powered by Cyso. Fuga Cloud is built on recent and stable OpenStack technology and uses enterprise grade hardware to deliver the best, most reliable and cost-friendly OpenStack platform of the Netherlands.

Build and host your own platforms and applications on our public cloud from compute, storage and networking components. Fuga Cloud offers a fast, flexible and highly scalable platform with extensive options for automation and orchestration. A full technical overview of the Fuga Cloud platform can be found below on this page.

Manage your Fuga Cloud platform whichever way you prefer. Either use the user-friendly Horizon web interface, the rich features of the command line interface or harness the full power of the different OpenStack APIs directly from your own application using a RESTful API.

Getting started with Fuga Cloud is easy: fill out your credentials and complete our easy sign-up process. Once you’ve completed the registration, just log onto the dashboard and create your first Fuga Cloud instance in minutes.

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How does it work?

Fuga Cloud is an open source cloud computing platform. It includes a plethora of different projects, which interact and form the OpenStack ecosystem. The figure below shows the basic components that form the OpenStack ecosphere and how they interact. Together, they create a rich set of features and the possibility for massive scalability. Each service offers an application programming interface (API) which, combined, form a flexible and customizable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution.

Core Services

Dashboard
Horizon

Provides a web-based self-service portal to interact with underlying OpenStack services, such as launching an instance, assigning IP addresses and configuring access controls.

Compute
Nova

Manages the lifecycle of compute flavors (virtual hardware templates) and instances in your Fuga Cloud OpenStack environment. Responsibilities include spawning, scheduling and decommissioning of machines on demand. Floating IP addresses for instances are also provisioned through Nova.

Networking
Neutron

Enables network connectivity and load balancing as a service for other OpenStack services, such as OpenStack Compute. Provides an API for users to define internal and external networks.

Storage

Object Storage
Swift

Stores and retrieves arbitrary unstructured data objects via a RESTful, HTTP based API. It is highly fault tolerant with its data replication and scale out architecture. Swift also stores back-ups of images and volumes.

Block Storage
Cinder

Provides persistent block storage to running instances, either on SSD or standard disks. It allows you to create and centrally manage storage devices known as Cinder volumes.

Image Service
Glance

Telemetry
Ceilometer

Monitors and meters the OpenStack cloud for billing, benchmarking, scalability, and statistical purposes.

Orchestration
Heat

Allows you to configure automated provisioning of your instances. This way you can launch multiple instances or complete clusters and network configurations based on templates.

How to use Fuga Cloud?

OpenStack is driven by Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) which can be accessed by several means. The most user-friendly interface is the Horizon dashboard. The most powerful and complete interface is interacting with the API directly from your own application.

Figure 2: OpenStack APIs

Horizon Dashboard

OpenStack’s user-friendly webinterface is called Horizon. You can use it to create your servers (instances), storage and networks. Besides these basic functionality, it also has many more features to manage platforms and configurations.

Your RESTful application

Use the OpenStack APIs and extensions to launch server instances, create images, assign metadata to instances and images. You can also create containers and objects and complete other actions in your OpenStack cloud.

Services currently under development

We’re continuously testing and implementing more OpenStack projects into the Fuga Cloud platform.The following services are currently under development and evaluation:

Database as a Service
Trove

Trove provides a scalable and reliable Cloud Database as a Service provisioning functionality, for both relational and non-relational database engines.